Saturday, September 1, 2018

The
15th Session of the Parliament (Monsoon Session 2018) adjourned sine die on August 10, 2018. Lok Sabha
voted on a no-confidence motion which was won by the government. It also
discussed issues related to the recent floods and drought in the country. Rajya
Sabha discussed the final draft of the National Register of Citizens in Assam,
non-implementation of the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganising Act,
incidents of misuse of the social media and mob lynching.

Rajya
Sabha also elected its Deputy Chairman. In addition, the supplementary demands
for grants were discussed in Lok Sabha. 20 legislative Bills were introduced
during the session and 18 were passed other than the two Appropriation Bills.
Four Bills were withdrawn. Lok Sabha worked for 110% of the scheduled hours and
Rajya Sabha for 68%.

Top Performers –
Individuals

The
top 5 performers of the 16th Lok Sabha from the first session till
the end of the 15th Session (Monsoon Session 2018) are given
below.The table indicates the
cumulative performance of the Members of Parliament (MPs) from the beginning of
16th Lok Sabha.

MP

Political party

Initiated Debates (ID)

Private Members Bills (PMB)

Questions (Qns)

Total of ID+PMB+ Qns

Attendance

Supriya Sule

Nationalist Congress Party

95

19

1049

1163

96%

Shrirang Appa Barne

Shiv Sena

111

20

998

1129

94%

Rajeev Shankarrao Satav

Indian National Congress

114

19

989

1122

81%

Dhananjay Bhimrao Mahadik

Nationalist Congress Party

49

3

1042

1094

73%

Shivaji Adhalrao Patil

Shiv Sena

25

13

985

1023

68%

Source: PRS India

All the MPs are from
Maharashtra

Incidentally,
all the top 5 performers are from the state of Maharashtra.They are also Sansad Ratna Awardees in the
previous years.

Performance of
States

The
average score of the 16th Lok Sabha till the end of the Monsoon
Session per MP is 281. Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Jharkhand have shown performance score of more than
400. West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir
have shown poor performance.

States

MPs

Initiated debates (ID)

Sum of Private Member Bills (PMB)

Questions (Qns)

ID + PMB + Qns

Total

Average

Total

Average

Total

Average

Maharashtra

50

1910

39.8

187

24192

504.0

26289

547.7

Tamil Nadu

39

1482

39.0

0

15032

395.6

16514

434.6

Kerala

21

1711

81.5

80

7762

369.6

9553

454.9

Jharkhand

14

730

56.2

71

4793

368.7

5594

430.3

Karnataka

28

838

32.2

8

8462

325.5

9308

358.0

Rajasthan

27

1340

49.6

78

7719

285.9

9137

338.4

Delhi

7

303

50.5

67

1705

284.2

2075

345.8

Telangana

18

575

31.9

33

4533

251.8

5141

285.6

Haryana

10

418

52.3

24

1967

245.9

2409

301.1

Madhya Pradesh

31

867

31.0

20

6635

237.0

7522

268.6

Andhra Pradesh

25

852

35.5

15

5665

236.0

6532

272.2

Gujarat

26

645

24.8

55

6107

234.9

6807

261.8

Chhattisgarh

11

211

21.1

1

2070

207.0

2282

228.2

Odisha

22

908

43.2

63

4027

191.8

4998

238.0

Bihar

41

1669

43.9

101

6221

163.7

7991

210.3

Uttar Pradesh

83

2565

33.3

101

12073

156.8

14739

191.4

Assam

15

501

33.4

8

1937

129.1

2446

163.1

Uttarakhand

5

177

35.4

28

573

114.6

778

155.6

Punjab

15

472

33.7

11

1343

95.9

1826

130.4

West Bengal

46

1142

24.8

13

3462

75.3

4617

100.4

Jammu and Kashmir

7

120

20.0

1

346

57.7

467

77.8

National

20129

37.3

999

130598

241.8

151726

281.0

Source: PRS India

States with more
than 5 MPs only are taken up for analysis

Performance of
Political Parties

The
following table indicates the cumulative performance of the political parties
in the 16th Lok Sabha from the first Session till the 15th
Session.Shiv Sena and Nationalist
Congress Party have shown very good performance.They have done very well under ‘Questions’
category.CPI (M) has done very well
under ‘Debates’ category.All India
Trinamool Congress showed the poorest performance (average score for this party
is 87.6 while the National average is 281).

Out
of 999 Private Members Bills, Members of Bharatiya Janata Party, Indian
National Congress and Shiv Sena alone have introduced 760 bills. Although All India Anna DMK with 37 MPs, has
shown good performance with an average score of 444.7, their Members have not
introduced even a single Private Members Bill.

Row Labels

MPs

Initiated debates (ID)

Total Private Member Bills (PMB)

Questions

ID + PMB + Qns

Total

Average

Total

Average

Total

Average

Shiv Sena

18

842

49.5

74

10488

616.9

11404

670.8

Nationalist Congress Party

7

224

32.0

22

3597

513.9

3843

549.0

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

9

854

94.9

23

3137

348.6

4014

446.0

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

37

1471

39.8

0

14982

404.9

16453

444.7

Indian National Congress

49

1984

40.5

119

12624

257.6

14727

300.6

Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party

9

379

42.1

2

2219

246.6

2600

288.9

Telugu Desam Party

16

511

34.1

14

3744

249.6

4269

284.6

Bharatiya Janata Party

287

9133

34.6

567

59535

225.5

69235

262.3

Telangana Rashtra Samithi

12

445

37.1

30

2539

211.6

3014

251.2

Biju Janata Dal

21

908

43.2

63

4027

191.8

4998

238.0

Rashtriya Janata Dal

5

414

82.8

27

536

107.2

977

195.4

Samajwadi Party

7

116

16.6

1

1080

154.3

1197

171.0

Lok Jan Shakti Party

6

52

10.4

0

469

93.8

521

104.2

All India Trinamool Congress

38

817

21.5

8

2505

65.9

3330

87.6

National

20129

37.3

999

130598

241.8

151726

281.0

Source: PRS India

Only those political
parties with more than 5 Members were considered for this
analysis

PreSense
congratulates all the top performers.

We have already announced the Sansad Maha Ratna
Guidelines for the 16th Lok Sabha.Please click the link.

About this Award

Prime Point Foundation has been honouring the top performing Members of Parliament based on their performance in the House. (Questions raised, debates participated, issues raised, private bills introduced and attendance),

From 2012, the Foundation has named this award as 'Sansad Ratna Award'.